since blondie seems to still be on sabbatical, i'll take the liberty of highlighting a couple of "gems" from this week's upcoming study, from the article "reject worldly thinking".. from paragraph 12:.
is it true that succeeding in a secular career that offers power and prestige leads to lasting happiness?
remember that the craving to control others and the longing to be admired are the desires that enticed satan, but he is angry, not happy.. .
How about this ridiculous statement from paragraph 15: "According to the World Bank, the number of those suffering extreme poverty in Africa alone has grown from 280 million in 1990 to 330 million in 2012."
Guess what else has grown? The population of Africa. Idiots. The percentage of people in poverty has dropped.
it's a cold 13 degrees fahrenheit in tennessee this morning where i live.
glad i'm retired and don't have to work outside today.
what about where you live.
It's currently 34F (1C) and the lowest temperature in the forecast is 19F (-7C) on Friday morning. It's the coldest weather we've had in a few years.
i love the atheist experience show on youtube!
i just re-watched this video and it's one of my favorites.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mlakj_z_cgk.
I love the Atheist Experience show on YouTube! I just re-watched this video and it's one of my favorites.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MLakJ_Z_CGk
i think it is inevitable.
i don't worry about it but it just seems that the human race is going down a road that they can't make a turn off.. they are probing/discovering how the human mind works and produces intelligence down to the individual molecule.
now with the invention of the super quantum computer soon we will be able to build even better artificial intelligence greater than our own, so it will be easily able to out smart us because will we be a bunch of dumb apes first discovering how to make fire in it's eyes.. it will have it's own different agendas than us humans.
@redpilltwice
I also don't think that ai will make us extinct, but there has been remarkable progress in ai over the past few years.
"Over the course of millions of AlphaGo vs AlphaGo games, the system progressively learned the game of Go from scratch, accumulating thousands of years of human knowledge during a period of just a few days. AlphaGo Zero also discovered new knowledge, developing unconventional strategies and creative new moves that echoed and surpassed the novel techniques it played in the games against Lee Sedol and Ke Jie."
(Bold is mine.)
aside from obvious things that most people agree on, like theft being wrong and the importance of family, i can't think of a single thing i agree with the jws on, nothing that's specific to their religion anyway.
do you have any?.
I may agree with some things in principle, but not in absolutes. I could conceive of situations in which stealing would be morally right (National Treasure).
One of my biggest issues with JWs (and a lot of other religions) is when you ask why something is wrong and their answer is "Because the Bible says so." That's an appeal to authority. Matt Dillahunty mentions that in this video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pygo0JBK3xA
can anyone give me a valid reason for it?
growing old is a drag.
the witnesses idea of ever lasting life, that you will come back to your most youthful state is such a bs answer..
If scientists ever find a way for us to live forever, then we'll live through plenty of technological advancement. Eventually we'll have fully immersive virtual reality where we'll be able to visit any period from history or live in a world that we create to be whatever we want, not to mention having the ability to travel the universe.
And there are even some people who believe we will merge with artificial intelligence and become transhuman. If such a thing occurs, then presumably our whole way of thinking will be different. It may be impossible to imagine just what we could conceive of in that state.
I think I would want to live forever given all of the possibilities, but I'm not sure if science will ever save us from aging, much less in my lifetime.
we all know that this cult will drive those trying to leave to desperate measures, and today by brother was very nearly one of those statistics.
he slashed his thigh with a kitchen knife and was bleeding out until he called the police.. i got a call on my way home from work from a police officer, coincidentally it was one of my old friends from school who's now a cop.
he told me my brother is in hospital after an attempted suicide and has lost some blood but will be ok. but i should get to the hospital as he's asking for me.
I'm so sorry for you and your brother, and I hope he gets the help he needs. My mom basically asked me what I would gain by not being a witness. For one thing, I would no longer be a part of a religion that does shit like this.
i've been bi for a long time but i know it's wrong if you want to be a jw... .
I don't think that your feelings are wrong. If there's a god, then he has far more important things to do than worry about who we have sex with.
i've been bi for a long time but i know it's wrong if you want to be a jw... .
i've been bi for a long time but i know it's wrong if you want to be a jw... .
Hi and welcome to the forum!
Maybe you could share a few more details so we could understand your situation a bit better.
There's nothing wrong with your feelings. Do you think a loving God would have any issue with you being bi? Do you want to be a JW? If so, then why?
